Estate Living Magazine Investment - Issue 34 October 2018 | Page 51
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Maturity Level
3
This home owner understands that there are a number of
other home owners with similar interests or issues to theirs
so they claim to represent other members. For example,
they could be dog owners who object to the number of
dogs permitted or the barking restrictions. Or perhaps
they own a small property, and now request to pay a lower
levy, claiming to represent this class of owner.
Maturity Level
4
Those who make an effort to understand the needs and
issues of all the major stakeholders on the estate and other
external parties with power to disrupt the smooth running
and general ambience of the estate. They understand
the demographics in the estate (age, gender, children,
sporting interests, club membership, etc.). They also
understand that there are other parties who can influence
the quality of life on the estate, like management and
staff, affiliated clubs, neighbours, other estates close by,
the municipality or other local authorities, the provincial
authorities (roads, etc.), even Community Schemes
Ombud Service (CSOS)!
They try to serve all stakeholders by taking their collective
interests and issues into account, and they seek balanced
decisions when deciding on matters that will affect those
stakeholders. They strive for win-win solutions and avoid
zero-sum games where one wins and others lose. They will
not be influenced by internal pressure groups but strive to
be fair to all. They subjugate their own narrow interest and
needs in the interest of the majority.
Maturity Level
5
Once in a while an estate is
fortunate to have a director
who can take the board
and the estate to favourable
places that they would n ot have
imagined or would not have got to
on their own without him/her. This is
the transformational leader who has achieved
Maturity Level 4 and holds a long-term focus and strives
for best practice and visionary leadership so that everybody
involved ends up in beneficial positions not previously imagined
or understood.
T ransformational leadership is a style of
leadership where a leader works with teams to
identify needed change, creating a vision to guide
the change through inspiration, and executing the
change in tandem with committed members of a
group.”
Development of directors
The challenge is to develop technically competent directors
by increasing their understanding and awareness of the needs
of all relevant stakeholders – for example, by conducting a
formal stakeholder analysis – and then encouraging balanced
decisions with a long-term focus that will benefit all the relevant
stakeholders.
Janssen Davies, Chairperson
White River Country Estate and Berg en Dal Estate
White River Country Estate
Dainfern
Nooitgedacht Estate
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